Perhaps you noticed yourself but customers are asking more often how secure Microsoft clouds services are(Microsoft Azure, Office365 & Windows Intune)? Valid questions like “What- and where my corporate data is stored? How my corporate data is protected in Microsoft datacenters? What security controls in place and what about backup, disaster recovery and data retention policies? Do I have control on what data is going synced to the cloud?” And so we can still go on…

By informing customers and providing them guidelines and best practices it is more clear what the impact of using Microsoft cloud services is for their organizations. This will eliminate possible restraints (rightly or not), increases confidence of cloud service as platform & accelerates the adaption as such.

Today Microsoft announced new enhancements of Windows Intune Service as per next week. These updates include:

Ability for the administrator to configure email profiles, whichcan automatically configure the device with the appropriate email server information and related policies, as well as the ability to remove the profile along with the email itself via a remote wipe if needed.

Support for new configuration settings in iOS 7, including the “Managed open in” capability to protect corporate data by controlling which apps and accounts are used to open documents and attachments, and disabling the fingerprint unlock feature.

Ability for the administrator to remotely lock the device if it is lost or stolen, and reset the password if the user forgets it.

In addition to our unified deployment mode and integration with System Center Configuration Manager, Windows Intune can now stand alone as a cloud-only MDM solution. This is a big win for organizations that want a cloud-only management solutions to manage both their mobile devices and PC’s.

Together with my colleague Stijn Callebaut we provide the audience a cloud forecast; standardization, automation and process integration with Service Manager and Windows Azure. Showcase a self-service scenario provisioning IaaS to Windows Azure.

Microsoft provides a consistent Cloud OS but how consistent is the deployment of these in a public or private cloud scenario? The lack of process integration, supply of various portals, too many steps, too many clicks! Service Manager provides an interface that allows Cloud OS. On a standard and automated way After going through change management process VMs in public (Azure) or private cloud (SCVMM) provisioned. All this on the assumption Cafeteria, standardization and automation of your public or private cloud.

As Microsoft announced on September 23rd updating their Windows Intune cloud service which will be available October 18th I thought it might be interesting having a closer look what is going-on after installing the Windows Intune client agents software.

In this post I will cover the following points of Windows Intune. Enjoy

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Today Brad Anderson announced from now on that MMS will be merged with TechEd event. How come?

The objective is simple: Provide attendees a better opportunity for knowledge gathering and technical growth. By drawing together a larger community to this combined event, every attendee will have a dramatically wider range of experts and luminaries (both from the industry and within Microsoft) to learn from and engage.

TechEd 2014 will be your single best source for the latest news, trends, resources and deep technical education. Also, the System Center team is already preparing to teach the deep 300- and 400-level content you’ve come to expect at MMS. There will also be expanded Early Bird pricing options, dedicated Management Meet & Geek opportunities, dedicated Management Instructor-Led Labs and Hands-on Labs, structured and unstructured networking opportunities tuned to the Management community and broader communities, and other unique MMS experiences.

This is a big transition, and I understand and respect the concerns that accompany this type of strategic move. The content and operational experts behind both events are already working together to ensure that this new event surpasses what you’ve come to expect from TechEd while delivering everything you require from MMS.

Read the complete blog post of Brad Anderson here. The new format of TechEd NA 2014 take place at May 12-15, 2014 in Houston, Texas.

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Windows Azure is a great cloud platform to host your WordPress site(s). But how easy is it to manage? From infratructure perspective you’ve the Windows Azure Management Portal available to monitor traffic, scale your site, set your domain names and bindings.

But what if you need to make some changes to your WordPress site which can’t be performed by the GUI? Let’s say you want to upload a theme which exceeds the default upload upload_max_filesize directive ? You can’t modify the php.ini by GUI. FTP(S) is your friend!!

But how…excactly how can I connect to my WordPress site hosted on Windows Azure by FTP(S)?